The Battle of Churubusco Paperback by Andrea Ferraris

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2018-01-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 200 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683960577
• Item Weight: 521.64 grams
• Dimensions: 24.13 x 17.27 x 1.65 cm

A soldier under fire faces a crisis of conscience in this remarkable work of historical graphic fiction.

Today, Churubusco is a residential suburb of Mexico City. But in 1847, it was the stronghold of the San Patricios, a motley battalion of soldiers — including some runaway American slaves — who deserted the United States Army for a just, if suicidal, cause. In this graphic novel, Andrea Ferraris uses a bold charcoal technique to tell the story of the San Patricios through the eyes of Gaetano Rizzo, a 22-year-old Sicilian immigrant (based on a real soldier of the time). Promised citizenship and a parcel of land, Rizzo joins the U.S. Army in the fight to take California away from Mexico. Before long, he realizes that the cruelty he is ordered to inflict is no different from the horrors he had escaped from in his home country.

About the Author

Andrea Ferraris (b. 1966, Genoa, Italy) has worked for Disney for more than 20 years and also draws Donald Duck stories for the Danish publisher Egmont. He lives in Paris.

Jamie Richards is an Italian-to-English translator from Southern California currently based in Milan, Italy. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.